woensdag 25 februari 2009

Gottfried Salzmann - New York Midtown, 2006(mixed media on photograph)

Gottfried Salzmann - Hambourg, 2006(mixed media on photograph)

"Gottfried Salzmann’s pictures are an invitation to defy gravity, separating the viewer from normal feelings of space and time. His landscapes pull the gaze of the spectator away from the earth, allowing it to glide over the surface offering glimpses of incalculable depths. Salzmann has developed more and more into a soaring eagle, preferring to look at the world from on high, a modern Icarus floating above land and sea." (tekst: Franklin Bowles gallery)

dinsdag 24 februari 2009

"A five years study, questioning landscape and identity. Is the territory surrounding us influencing our identity. What happen then when this territory, reputed to be wild and pure, is in fact completely manipulated by human?"

maandag 23 februari 2009

Hans Wijninga (°1965 Arnhem NL) reflects in his work photography itself. He tests the limits of the medium, searching for the essence of the image. The game between reality and the experience of reality is of central importance within these practices. By minimising visually recognisable elements in his photographs, he reaches the point at which one can just still speak of an image. Essentially, Wijninga has adopted an extreme position within photography. His work signifies a fundamental research on the modes that typify the photographic medium: space, light and time. (tekst: Ronmandos.nl)

woensdag 18 februari 2009

"Peter Kogler's (°1959, D) art lies in the creation of architectural spaces that are situated between the real and fictive worlds. In his diversely encoded staging of space he draws from the rich vocabulary of modern digital information and communications technologies or from film architecture."

dinsdag 17 februari 2009

"Luis Mallo’s (°1962 Cuba) large-scale urban landscapes–most made in his Brooklyn neighborhood–are cleverly realized perceptual puzzles. In each photo, chicken wire, slats, net or fencing of some sort occupies the picture’s foreground, interrupting but not entirely obscuring our view of the factory, parking lot or construction site beyond. Like a curious passerby, our eye is drawn to the open spaces and tears in these heavy-duty scrims, and Mallo invites us to fill in the entire landscape based on the strips and swatches we see. Both thwarting and redirecting our vision, the work is as perverse as it is engaging."

maandag 16 februari 2009

"Anywhere reloaded is a series of projects about dis-connected places in the urban environment. places that we cross every days but that we never look at. Although those places seem invisible, they are well alive. Who knows what happen at night when they have completed their utilitarian existence? Maybe they turn to invisible doors leading toanother unsuspected reality? In this project, I’m emptying functional elements, erasing human presence. By holowing out the space of its primary use, I’m trying to reveal its parallel existence.." (tekst: Marie-laure Delaby)

"I worked on Vider Paris in a very rational way, as if I was part of a public engineering firm. I removed all traces of life, I dismantled the urban furniture and kept the architecture. It is a fiction without narration. I do not tell a story, I just present the facts. These images allow an open fiction, creating a powerful projection" (tekst: Nicolas Moulin)

Imaginitive Landscapes/Landscapes of the Imagination, is a series of images that shows the ways in which homeowners transform the landscape surrounding their dwellings. “While looking at these front yards and gardens it occurred to me that the fragments I was photographing could be felt and experienced as a modern day Arcadia. The owners themselves undoubtedly derive great pleasure from their creations, but if you put all these pieces of ‘Arcadia’ together in your imagination on a global scale, you encounter an enormously cultivated and surreal landscape.” Herman van den Boom